Consulting Assignments

  • Consultant for Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences, The College of New Rochelle, 1981. My duties were to assess the existing hardware and software, and then submit a report containing recommendations for new hardware and staffing of a new computer center, as well as making recommendations for both faculty and curricula for an undergraduate major in computer science, and an additional major in education involvig a computer science concentration.
  • Principal Reviewer for text: Advanced Calculus, Third Edition, by Watson W. Fulks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1982.
  • Principal Reviewer for text: Discrete Mathematics, by Ross & Wright, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1984.
  • Principal Reviewer for EPIC Software for Microcomputers, by Burgmeier & Kant, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983.
  • I have served as consultant and principal software designer and programmer to the New York State Power Authority (NYPA) and Applied Energy Group, consultants to NYPA, on the MALMS Project, 1986-87. I helped design applications software to be used in a VAX Pascal environment for distributing electrical power to municipalities across New York State from the Niagara power source, based on prior usage statistics contained in a historical database of previous electrical power usage. This work was done over a 16-month period from June 1986 to September 1987.
  • Served as a computer consultant to William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, evaluating the then-current computing curriculum in the School of Science. The work also included making hardware and software recommendations to implement mathematics-related computer science courses in the School of Science, July, 1987.
  • Served as a consultant in the C programming language for The Equitable Life Insurance Company, 1989. This work involved teaching a short course (five days) in C for the Software Applications Group.
  • Employed as a consultant for Computers and Communications System Management, Ltd., Fairfield, CT, serving the academic and financial sector in C, Ada, and UNIX.
  • I serve as a member of the Editorial Board for the Technical Report Series on Computer and Information Science for the School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Pace University.
  • I have taught short courses (five days) on the UNIX operating system, and in the C++ programming language to the faculty at Manhattan College in December, 1991 (for UNIX) and July, 1994 (for C++).
  • I conducted a faculty workshop on "STL Libraries and Their Application in Object-Oriented Design" at Manhattan College in the spring semester, 1997. I was awarded a Faculty Technology Grant for that purpose.
  • I conducted a workshop for faculty, staff, and administrators in the use of Java applets and the Internet, in March-April, 1998. I was awarded a Faculty Technology Grant for this purpose.
  • I was a reviewer of papers submitted for the fifteenth Eastern Small College Computer Conference, to be held in October, 1999 at St. Bonaventure University.
  • Served as a principal reviewer for the publication "Core Java Volume II: Advanced Feature" by Cay Horstmann & Gary Cornell, Prentice-Hall, Sun Microsystems Series, 2000.
  • Served as a principal reviewer for the book: “Object-Oriented Problem Solving: Java, Java, Java, Second Edition” by Ralph Morelli for Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2003.
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